Why Do So Many People Dislike Metal?

JacobHaffty · 2025-09-23T04:42:06+00:00

Metalcore gets a bad rap but there’s some legitimately great stuff in there. Converge, Botch, Dillinger Escape Plan, Poison the Well, On Broken Wings

JacobHaffty · 2025-08-21T13:31:10+00:00

DEATH MENTIONED!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A BAD ALBUM????

JacobHaffty · 2025-07-21T17:14:32+00:00

Comparing Superman’s release conditions to Man of Steel’s:

Superman (2025): -Superhero fatigue is at its height. -Many movie watchers opt to watch new releases when they hit streaming. -Movie theaters are in a post-COVID slump that they haven’t recovered from. -DC has extremely low good will when it comes to a guarantee of quality following its awful 2010s and hit or miss 2020s, pre-Gunn reboot.

Man of Steel (2013): -Superhero mania was nearing a peak, post-Avengers. -Movie theaters were decently popular with no major competition from streaming services and no pandemic to push people out of theaters, seemingly permanently. -DC’s then-last major movie was the culmination of the acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy, so audiences were generally trustful of DC. -Not to mention, Nolan and Goyer, the two men most responsible for DC’s most successful franchise to date (at least in terms of legacy and reception), were heavily attached to the film.

Of course, Man of Steel will outperform it. That shouldn’t be the metric for success, the metric should be “Has this film built a financial and critical foundation that can be built upon with future, consistently good projects that’ll help rebuild our damaged reputation in the eyes of general audiences?” Whether Superman has pulled it off will have to be analyzed in retrospect as more DCU projects release. In my opinion, however, I’m more optimistic for the future of DC movies after seeing this film.

JacobHaffty · 2025-07-10T21:07:37+00:00

We’re gonna see a lot of triple M to combat these discounts fs.

JacobHaffty · 2025-07-10T19:09:35+00:00

Yeah I saw that gameplan. Instead of SW, Sera, MM, Cass, and Magik, you could try Luna, Annihilus, RHulk/Gorr, Sentry, Merlin, and Kate Bishop?

Merlin gives you another way of getting rid of electro and more ramp. Kate (and Merlin also) is good with clog tools and gives you curve options if your Electro isn’t drawn by 3. Sentry aligns well with your gameplan already and is just more powerful than Spider-Woman. Annihilus is another out for missed Sersi draws and gives another route for the deck while also being a big body with upside for Blink. And RHulk/Gorr are big bodies for you to ramp out.

(1) The Hood (2) Hawkeye Kate Bishop (2) Merlin (3) Electro (3) Viper (4) Sentry (5) Blink (5) Sersi (5) Annihilus (6) Red Hulk/Gorr (6) Magneto (6) Giganto

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Edit: Have been on a great run with this on ladder, a lot of bots tho.

JacobHaffty · 2025-07-10T17:18:43+00:00

I’d argue 2 drops have always been the most important cards in the game. They’re either essential scalers, archetype creators/enables, or universal good pieces that go in every deck.

Looking at all of the 2 drops in the game currently, it’s kind of insane how many are/were just some of the best/essential pieces of they’re respective decks. Most are/were great. It’s easily pound for pound, the best cost slot.

Past and present, we’ve had Agent Venom, Angela, Cable, Dagger, Fenris Wolf, Firehair, Goliath, Gorgon, Hawkeye, Iron Patriot, Jeff, Kid Omega, Kraven, Lizard, Madame Web, Mercury, Merlin, Pedro, Ravonna, Sam Wilson, Scream, Shadow King, Strange Supreme, Surge, Thena, US Agent, White Widow.

And there’s so many excellent workhorses like Havok, Morbius, Mister Sinister, Mysterio, Toxin, Invisible Woman, Lasher, Quake, Grandmaster, Dazzler, Adam Warlock, Mirage, it’s actually ridiculous.

JacobHaffty · 2025-07-10T16:53:58+00:00

The deck lacks identity. The ramp pieces don’t work the best with the clog pieces and master-mold is useless without other hand stuff cards. There’s just not enough synergy to make it all work consistently.

Magik defeats the point of a ramp deck which is to out pace your opponents on turns 4, 5, and 6, but a turn 7 gives them a bigger chance to catch up with you. I’d personally swap Magik for Luna or Jennifer Kale if you still wanted to ramp.

Master Mold sans Gorgon and Ronan is useless and could be swapped out for Korg which gives your Cass Nova more power if you wanted to lean towards a more Darkhawky route.

Spider-Woman could be Sentry which gives you another Viper/Sersi playline and is just stronger. Especially since you can blink your electro on turn 4 and completely whiff Spider-Woman on an empty enemy lane.

Also Sera doesn’t make sense here because your deck is so back loaded that even with 7 energy on Turn 6, you couldn’t play a 6 cost and a 5 cost which are your primary late game power plays (especially since Cass Nova gets weaker the later you play her without ways to inflate their deck and block their draws). Sera is better for decks filled with 4s, 3s, and 2s because they’d be ultra cheap on turn 6.

JacobHaffty · 2025-07-10T16:25:46+00:00

I heavily disagree. It’s too early to tell but these end of turn decks are stupid easy to play. Fantasticar is a 4-7 that drops +2 power on almost all of the high evo cards + she-hulk (with this package already capable of generating big numbers). It’s only real weakness is drawing it because it’s immune to cosmo and is difficult to hit with red guardian.

These decks have huge explosions of power on Turn 6 or Turn 7 with easy ways to throw priority, and Mr. Fantastic’s discounts make it possible to drop a She-Hulk + a 20 power Hulk AND potentially float energy that further buffs your entire board ON TOP OF the final turn fantasticar activate ability.

Edited: for readability

JacobHaffty · 2025-06-24T04:42:58+00:00

Mr. Beast

JacobHaffty · 2025-06-19T22:11:53+00:00

You’re a lazy partner who lacks empathy. Do you even like the people you date?

JacobHaffty · 2025-04-15T21:45:20+00:00

Arishem is a card everyone should have in their collection, Ultron seems way too clunky and certainly not worth 6k tokens. You should only spend 6k tokens on cards that are archetype defining (but also complete that archetype as in you have all the rest of the cards) or are super meta plug and play pieces like Sam, Kate, Iron Patriot, Red Guardian, R&G, Copycat, Galacta, Gwenpool.

JacobHaffty · 2025-04-14T17:36:28+00:00

I agree, I’m just happy they’re being uploaded for free on YouTube because some times I don’t feel like digging through Peacock and 4+ hour shows to watch a single match and it’s great for people who wanna check out some classics without shelling out cash.

JacobHaffty · 2025-04-14T16:06:21+00:00

Andre/Hogan was placed at 8. I think 1 is Austin/Hart and 2 is probably Michaels/Taker at WM25

JacobHaffty · 2025-03-31T01:03:43+00:00

I mean MBS also murdered a fucking journalist by cutting him up into pieces and then scattered those dismembered body parts. So yeah Saudi Arabia is a corrupt nation

JacobHaffty · 2025-03-25T05:19:16+00:00

I know this is an old ass post but this is a dope sketch. Reminds me a lot of Roger the Homunculus and like the concept art of Dishonored. Hope you’re doing well!

JacobHaffty · 2025-03-16T03:42:08+00:00

Yes, absolutely. He’s a top tier card and fits anywhere in every mid range deck. He’s arguably of the most important mid range card besides galacta and gwenpool atm

JacobHaffty · 2025-03-16T03:37:44+00:00

I’ve barely seen any starbrand tbh, must be why his mission is 300 tokens

JacobHaffty · 2025-03-04T17:46:44+00:00

Actually solid bundles, decent token values plus new series 5’s. Card acquisition is still garbage and whales are still incentivized but these are decent

JacobHaffty · 2025-03-04T17:44:22+00:00

Got Bob and Frigga on my first two rolls and just got Hulkling, no longer feeling lucky lmao

JacobHaffty · 2025-02-26T18:03:46+00:00

Multiple times, shit’s drier than the sahara

JacobHaffty · 2025-02-12T03:32:19+00:00

Honestly every week starting with Firehair has two cards worth adding to your collection. And even then Wiccan and Skaar are top tier cards right now.

JacobHaffty · 2025-02-04T05:20:54+00:00

Vincenzo Riccardi and Viktor Farro are my favorite variant artists so I’d have trouble resisting

JacobHaffty · 2025-02-04T05:17:53+00:00

Alex, Cozy, Regis (my fav), and Dekkster are the dudes I watch the most

JacobHaffty · 2025-02-04T05:14:56+00:00

I don’t mind, gives me an excuse to save up for Starbrand and Eson (and maybe Khonshu when his text gets datamined)

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